Arabia infelix, or the Turks in Yamen

Bury George Wyman 1874-

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Digitized by tine Internet Arciiive in 2008 witii funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation littp://www.arcliive.org/details/arabiainfelixortOOburyuoft ARABIA INFELIX MACMILLAN AND CO.. Limited • •LONDON BOMBAY CALCUTTA MELBOURNE COMPANYTHE MACMILLAN • • CHICAGONEW YORK BOSTON • FRANCISCODALLAS SAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.THE MACMILLAN TORONTO IN THE YAMEN HIGHLANDS.A SCENE Frontispiece. ARABIA INFELIX OR THE TURKS IN YAMEN G. WYMAN BURY / AUTHOR OF 'the LAND OF UZ WITH ILLUSTRATIONS MAPSSf ^K-^' MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREt:T, LONDON 1915 COPYRIGHT PREFACE Europewent to press the Powers ofSince this book westernstruggle that is shaking thehave grappled in a hemisphere. after wobbling for weeks on the brink ofTurkey, been pushed over by her Turco-Germanhostilities, has incident shows how a strongwar-party. The whole unstable government tomilitary clique can drive an disaster. British, who haveTurkey's attitude towards the more thanguaranteed the integrity of her empire for half a century, is largely the outcome of Teutonic intrigue, but our action in retaining her two new battleships (the Sultan Osman and the ReshadieK) had more to do with it than most of us imagine. The subscription for those ships was a religious matter, to which all classes had contributed their utmost. We should not like our subscriptions for a new cathedral to be arbitrarily diverted to the building of a mosque.

Sujets

• Yémen

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 5
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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Digitized by tine Internet Arciiive
in 2008 witii funding from
IVIicrosoft Corporation
littp://www.arcliive.org/details/arabiainfelixortOOburyuoftARABIA INFELIXMACMILLAN AND CO.. Limited
• •LONDON BOMBAY CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE
COMPANYTHE MACMILLAN
• • CHICAGONEW YORK BOSTON
• FRANCISCODALLAS SAN
CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.THE MACMILLAN
TORONTOIN THE YAMEN HIGHLANDS.A SCENE
Frontispiece.